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Office · Opened 1961
New York
The founding office, and still the center of the firm's transactional and disputes work.
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Marlowe & Sterling LLP1 Chancery Row, 28th FloorNew York, NY 10004United States
Marlowe & Sterling has practiced from lower Manhattan since 1961, when Edwin Marlowe and Beatrice Sterling took two rooms above a printer's on Chancery Row and shared a telephone line. The firm has moved four times in sixty-five years and never more than nine blocks.
New York remains the firm's largest office, with 118 lawyers, and the place where most cross-border matters are coordinated. Corporate, disputes, funds, intellectual property, and private client teams all sit here, on three floors connected by a single internal stair — an arrangement the firm has insisted on through every move, on the theory that a partner two flights up is consulted and a partner two buildings away is not.
The office is a ten-minute walk from the federal and state courthouses at Foley Square, which is less a convenience than a working assumption for the litigation group.
Practices here
What the New York office is instructed on.
Corporate & Transactions
Acquisitions, carve-outs, joint ventures, and the governance that has to survive them.
Disputes & Arbitration
Litigation and international arbitration in matters where the outcome changes the business.
Financial Services & Funds
Fund formation, secondaries, and regulatory counsel for managers and institutional investors.
Intellectual Property & Technology
Patent and trade secret disputes, licensing, and the agreements governing data and models.
Private Client & Succession
Succession, governance, and philanthropy for families whose principal asset is a business.
People
Lawyers in New York.
Representative Matters
Work run from New York.
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Separating a $1.4 billion division that had never operated alone
A specialty materials division across nine countries, sold to a private capital buyer with sixty percent of its operations still running on the parent's systems.
- Corporate & Transactions
- Employment & Executive Counsel
A $2.3 billion continuation vehicle for a single asset
A sponsor-led secondary in which the conflicts process was settled before the transaction was announced rather than defended after it.
- Financial Services & Funds
- Corporate & Transactions
Parallel patent and trade secret proceedings in surgical robotics
A competitor asserted seven patents and a trade secret claim. The case turned on what the accused instrument actually did during a two-second interval.
- Intellectual Property & Technology
- Disputes & Arbitration
Succession for a fourth-generation manufacturing group
Thirty-one shareholders, four of whom worked in the business, and a governing document written in 1974.
- Private Client & Succession
- Corporate & Transactions
A contested chief executive departure at a listed asset manager
A departure that had to be announced, a covenant that had to be enforced, and a business that had to keep its clients through both.
- Employment & Executive Counsel
- Corporate & Transactions
Contact New York
Reach the office directly.
Call +1 (212) 555-0142 during Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time, or write to newyork@marloweandsterling.com. Describe the matter in general terms and name the parties involved so a conflicts check can be run before anything substantive is discussed.